Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-22
STATE NEWS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


While Lewiston officers were exploring
Goldfish Block Lincoln street, Saturday af-
ternoon, in passing along the cellar they no.
ticed knotted string hanging from the floor.
Pulling at this a trap door raised. disclosing
packages containing sixty gallons of whskey.
ARoosTooK.
At the adjourned meeting in New Limerick
last week the people voted 50 900 to aid in
securing the Northern Maine. II. w. Stafford,
Esq, of Mars Hill. has secured an additional
thousand dollars in that town by subscription
for the same purpose.
Mr.. Abner Getchell of Linneus. has 30
horses at work hauling hides for Shaw Bros.
near Brookton. In the summer months Mr..
Getchell takes his horses to Bar Harbor,
where they are kept busy by the summer Wis
itors. Last year Mr.. Getchell had - horses
employed there. a of which were engaged in
drawing an eght-horse barge from Bar Har-
Dor to Eagle Lake three times a day for the
Green Mountain Railway.
Letter b seems to be the favorite hunting
ground just at present for deer and caribou.
William Adams of Linneus an aged citi-
zen, died suddenly on the afternoon of Nov
18th. He attended church in the morning
and also Sunday school
Number of cars shipped from Houlton
station from Nov. to u inclusive Horses
2; lumber IL: laths 2 leather 2 shingles . !:
extract miscellaneous ; hay = potatoes
) oats |: cattle 3: total 40 cars.
Bills are out announcing a grand ball at
Hodgdon Thanksgiving night. Music by
Robinson's orchestra.
CUMBERLAND.
Albert l.. Small seized s7j short Holsters
at Freeport Saturday and put the case in the
hands of Deputy Sheriff Sargent.
KENNEBEC.
A son of Samuel g. Mars'on of Pittston
attempted to go under the railroad bridge on
top of a load of pressed hay, Friday after
noon. The hay came nearer to the bridge
than he anticipated and he was badly jammed
by being caught between the hav and bridge
Three of his ribs were broken and his
shoulder injured
Geo. H. Powell's wife of Oakland whose
desertion of her children was reported last
week, has returned and made all agreeable
with her family, reports the Watervile
Sentinel
Maine is continually coming to the front.
The Ponce de Leon. St. Augustine's man.
moth hotel, is to be equipped with dining
chairs from the mandatory of the j. WAY
land kimball Company of West Paris.
PENoBsCoT.
The whole broom manufacturing plant at
the county Jail in Bangor has been sold to the
State Prison at Thomaston, and will be taken
down there within the next few DAYS. EP
Patterson, who has conducted the business
here will go down to Thomaston and have
charge of the operations at the prison. The
business is given up in Bangor so that more
attention can be paid to the manufacture of
kindling wood. Another reason is that the
men serve such short sentences in the county
Jail that as soon they learn to be good
workmen they are discharged.
VIM. F. Mccarthy, one of the printers at
Frank X. Smiths, Bangor, caught his hand in
printing press there last week, and had his
thumb badly crushed. 1t is feared that if
feared that it will have to be amputated Tie
The foreign exports of Bangor during the
past week were valued at Sl0,2S5, and con-
sisted of S4s9,7S6 feet of white birch SPOOL
wood to Bowling Scotland, per bark Nave
sink.
The new engine which arrived last FRIDAY
for the electric light station at Bangor has
oeen put in position at the station, and will
oegin running in about week 1t is to
supply the electricity for the extra plant of